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Strategically, quite a bit. Wired recently had a piece on this: https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-helped-d... Matt Stoller also had a really great writeup: https:…

Am I misunderstanding the graph in the article? My understanding is that the graph is showing that home prices are still rising, but only at an 8.4% increase between Sep 2017 and S…

Especially since "driver-error" is the cause of 94% of motor vehicle crashes in the U.S.[1], with 32,675 people killed and 2.3 million injured in 2014.[2] Worldwide, motor-vehicle …

I mostly agree, except; depression might be Facebook's problem if it is exacerbated by one of their "experiments." http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-s...

Possibly, but most of the Saturniid moths aren't aerial acrobats to begin with. None of them can fly with enough precision to really evade predators. One of the best behavioural de…

An update on the various fundraisers set up for James: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2015/...

Perhaps I generalized a bit too much (I suppose I should not have commented when I was dead tired...) However, the USDA does in fact allow non-prohibited chemicals to be used on US…

I think they are referring to the loophole that allows farms to use organic chemicals on produce that is labeled "Organic". In chemistry, an organic chemical is a compound that con…